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KENTUCKY v. INDIANA et al. (1985)

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KENTUCKY v. INDIANA et al.
Term: 1985
Important Dates
Decided: November 4, 1985
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • William Brennan • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • John Paul Stevens • Byron White

KENTUCKY v. INDIANA et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 4, 1985.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1980s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Kentucky
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Indiana
  • Citation: 474 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as unspecifiable.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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